"Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance."
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"Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent."
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"I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects"
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"My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement."
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"I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!"
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"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing."
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"Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
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"Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets"
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"In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance."
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"It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world."
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"Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?"
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"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
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"Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life."
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"Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass."
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"The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers"
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"Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise."
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"I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free."
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"Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie."
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"Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing."
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"We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark."
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